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Comment by mycocola | Hacker News Reader

It's frustrating to see so much nationalism in this day and age.

Do you consider any instance of taking pride in your country - including small remarks pointing out trivial coincidences - as nationalism? Do you disagree with any example of recognizing the existence of a nation-state and it's relationship to individuals?

I tried to phrase these questions without snark, but your comment genuinely surprised and confused me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding. I do see how OP's comment is a bit nonsensical in light of the author's Swedish origins, but I don't think this justifies your invocation of a term with such negative connotations.

Pointlessly injecting a remark relating the birthday of a project to the "great day" of 4th of July is absolutely america-centric and presumptive. By extension I view it as a definite case of nationalism.

You are correct. Pride should not be confused with nationalism.

I think the "backlash" is more so for the presumptive and dismmissive America-centric view of the world

> presumptive and dismissive

You’re injecting dismissiveness, again a word with very negative connotation, at a simple mistake.

I would be more inclined to take your point if it wasn’t a cheerful, good-natured attempt at humor - nothing more.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809994.

There's nothing wrong with that. In fact you could say it was nationalism which motivated the country's greatest achievements.

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